The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean

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Needham, J., Science and Civilisation in China, vol. 5, part 4: Spagyrical discovery and invention: Apparatus, Theories and gifts. CUP, 1980. The most well-known commentary is that of Hortulanus, an alchemist about whom very little is known, in the first half of the 14th century: See, for example, the comments by Jean-Marc Mandosio on the relationship between André Breton and alchemy in his writings in Dans le chaudron du négatif, op. cit., p.22-25. Supposedly written thousands of years ago by the Egyptian god Thoth, the Book of Thoth is a mysterious book. Remains of these ancient writings remain today, as carefully preserved papyrus fragments.

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Around 1275-1280, Roger Bacon translated and commented on the Secret of Secrets, [23] and through a completely alchemical interpretation of the Emerald Tablet, made it an allegorical summary of the Great Work. [24] The Egyptians stored many texts, on a wide range of subjects, in "Houses of Life", the libraries contained within temple complexes. As Thoth was the god of knowledge, many of these texts were claimed to be his work. [1] The Egyptian historian Manetho said that Thoth wrote 36,525 books. [2] True, without falsehood, certain, and most true: What is below is like what is above, and what is above is like what is below, to accomplish the miracles of one thing. And as all things were derived from one by the meditation of one, so all things are born from this one thing by adaptation. The Sun is its father, the Moon is its mother, the Wind has carried it in its belly, its nurse is the Earth. The father of all telesms of the whole world is here. Its power is whole if it is converted into Earth. You will separate the Earth from the Fire, the subtle from the dense, gently and with great skill. It ascends from Earth to Heaven, and then it descends again to Earth, and receives the power of the superiors and the inferiors. Thus, you will have the glory of the whole world; and all darkness will flee from you. This is the strong force of all forces, overcoming every subtle thing and penetrating every solid thing. Thus, the world was created. From this, marvelous adaptations will arise, of which the manner is here. Therefore, I am called Hermes Trismegistus, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world. What I have said about the operation of the Sun is accomplished and ended." Comments [ edit ] The discovery of the Emerald Tablet in Aurora consurgens.

In some illustrations, he’s depicted as a baboon and takes the form of A’ani, who presided over the judgment of the dead with Osiris. Some legends say that he created himself through the power of language. In other stories, he was born from the forehead of Seth, the Egyptian god of chaos, war and storms, as well as from the lips of Ra. The fictional Book of Thoth appears in an ancient Egyptian short story from the Ptolemaic period, known as "Setne Khamwas and Naneferkaptah" or "Setne I". The book, written by Thoth, contains two spells, one of which allows the reader to understand the speech of animals, and one which allows the reader to perceive the gods themselves. [5] M. Robinson. The History and Myths surrounding Johannes Hispalensis, in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies vol. 80, no. 4, October 2003, pp.443–470, abstract. Selwood, Dominic (2023). "The Emerald Tablet and the Origins of Chemistry". medievalists.net . Retrieved 24 April 2023.Mandosio, Jean-Marc (2004b). "La Tabula smaragdina nel Medioevo latino, I. La Tabula smaragdina e i suoi commentari medievali". In Lucentini, P.; Parri, I.; Perrone Compagni, V. (eds.). La tradizione ermetica dal mondo tardo-antico all'umanesimo. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Napoli, 20–24 novembre 2001[ Hermetism from Late Antiquity to Humanism]. Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia. Vol.40. Turnhout: Brepols. pp.681–696. doi: 10.1484/M.IPM-EB.4.00121. ISBN 978-2-503-51616-5.

The tablet states its author as Hermes Trismegistus ("Hermes the Thrice-Greatest"), a legendary Hellenistic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the ancient Egyptian god Thoth. [47] Like most other works attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, the Emerald Tablet is very hard to date with any precision, but generally belongs to the late antique period (between c. 200 and c. 800). [48] The oldest known source of the text is the Sirr al-khalīqa wa-ṣanʿat al-ṭabīʿa ( The Secret of Creation and the Art of Nature, also known as the Kitāb al-ʿilal or The Book of Causes), an encyclopedic work on natural philosophy falsely attributed to Apollonius of Tyana ( c. 15–100, Arabic: Balīnūs or Balīnās). [49] This book was compiled in Arabic in the late eighth or early ninth century, [50] but it was most likely based on (much) older Greek and/or Syriac sources. [51] In the frame story of the Sirr al-khalīqa, Balīnūs tells his readers that he discovered the text in a vault below a statue of Hermes in Tyana, and that, inside the vault, an old corpse on a golden throne held the emerald tablet. [52] In the great city of Keor on the island of Undal in a time far past, I began this incarnation. Not as A third Latin version can be found in an alchemical treatise dating probably from the 12th century (although no manuscripts are known before the 13th or 14th century), the Liber Hermetis de alchimia (Book of Alchemy of Hermes). This version, known as the "vulgate," is the most widespread. [19] The translator of this version did not understand the Arabic word tilasm, which means talisman, and transcribed it into Latin as telesmus or telesmum (which became télesme in French), and it was variously interpreted by commentators, becoming "one of the most characteristic - and most vague - terms in alchemy". [20] Latin and French texts [ edit ] Badawi, Abd al-Rahman (1954). al-Usūl al-Yūnāniyya li-l-naẓariyyāt al-siyāsiyya fī al-islām. Cairo: Maktabat al-Nahḍa al-Miṣriyya. OCLC 12629786. The Secretum Secretorum was translated into Latin in a shortened version by Johannes Hispalensis or Hispaniensis (John of Seville) around 1140, and then in a longer version by Philip of Tripoli around 1220. It became one of the most famous books of the Middle Ages. [18]

Kahn, Didier (1994). La table d'émeraude et sa tradition alchimique. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. ISBN 9782251470054.

si terra fiat, eam ex igne subtili, qui omnem grossitudinem et quod hebes est antecellit, spatiosibus, et prudenter et sapientie industria, educite. The Corpus Hermeticum did not even exist in its current form until the 15 th century, when Medieval Byzantine scholars gathered and compiled Hermetic writings from the first to third centuries. And while the compilation is attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, the original writings that the editors gathered were probably from a variety of different sources. According to Egyptian historian Manetho, Thoth wrote 36,525 books. Manetho lived in the Ptolemaic Kingdom in the third century BC, during the Hellenistic period. There are many literary fiction books that feature the Emerald Tablet in the plot. The famous novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is probably the most popular. The story goes that the main character Santiago is on a quest to find his treasure and becomes interested in alchemy. In a book he reads, he discoversthat the most important insights about alchemy had been inscribed on the surface of an emerald. In Pop Culture Caiazzo, Irene (2004). "La Tabula smaragdina nel Medioevo latino, II. Note sulla fortuna della Tabula smaragdina nel Medioevo latino". In Lucentini, P.; Parri, I.; Perrone Compagni, V. (eds.). La tradizione ermetica dal mondo tardo-antico all'umanesimo. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Napoli, 20–24 novembre 2001[ Hermetism from Late Antiquity to Humanism]. Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia. Vol.40. Turnhout: Brepols. pp.697–711. doi: 10.1484/M.IPM-EB.4.00122. ISBN 978-2-503-51616-5.In 1583, a commentary by Gerard Dorn is published in Frankfurt by Christoph Corvinus. In De Luce naturae physica, this disciple of Paracelsus makes a detailed parallel between the Table and the first chapter of the Genesis attributed to Moses. It is the same old story as with the Bible. There have always been those whose egos and self-importance prompted them to change Bible texts for one reason or another and much of the truth that was originally conveyed became obscured and lost its true meaning. Joachim Telle L’art symbolique paracelsien: remarques concernant une pseudo-Tabula smaragdine du XVI e siècle in ( Faivre 1988, p.187) Despite these fragments of scrolls being stored in museums and gaining widespread acceptance as the authentic remains, there is disagreement and uncertainty as to their importance. It is unclear wither the writings come from the actual body of work of Thoth, as well as disagreement on if a higher consciousness known as Thoth really did appear in ancient Egypt and gave the priests books of knowledge. The Book of Thoth is a papyrus scroll, which today only exists in fragments Disagreements over It’s Authenticity The Table of Emerald and its legendary discovery are mentioned for the first time in De essentiis (1143) by Herman of Carinthia, a friend of Robert of Chester, who translated in 1144 the Liber de compositione alchimiae, considered the first treatise on alchemy in the West. [21]